Guard for money-slots and the like



J. NUTRY. GUARD FOR MONEY SLOTS AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 11, I919.

Patenfed June 8, 1920* 5] wuent oz JOHN NUTRY, OF RIDGEWOOD, NEW JERSEY.

GUARD FOB MONEY-SLOTS, AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Juno 8, 1920.

Application filed February 11, 1919. Serial No. 276,295.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN NUTRY, residing at Ridgewood, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guards for MonevSlots and the like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a guard for money slots and the like, and an object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and efiicient device particularly adapted for attachment adjacent the money slots of banks, and in other similar relations, the present structure being an improvement over the structure illustrated and described in my Patent 873,678, December 10, 1907.

A further object is to provide a guard member in which the parts may; be easily and expeditiously assembled, and which may be readily attached in position upon the bank with little likelihood of the parts of the guard becoming disassembled during the operation.

A further object is to so design the parts ofthe device that the guard fingers thereof will be supported in proper predetermined relation to the money slot, and so that the movements of the fingers will at all times be substantially in predetermined planes, to the end that in normal use, the fingers will not obstruct passage of coins through the money slot, while when the bank is in an abnormal position, as whenit is turned upside down, the fingers will all swing into well defined positions entirely blocking the money slot.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less specific thanthose referred to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations. arrangements of parts and applications of ')rinciples, constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as a part of this specification, and in which I have shown merely a preferred form of embodiment of the invention;

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a guard constructed in accordance with this invention, and showing the same attached to a portion of a bank, parts being broken away andillustrated in transverse section in lime l of Fig. 3. V

is a transverse sectional view taken substantially upon the plane of line H of Fig. 3, also showing the guard attached to a portion of a bank.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of detached from the bank, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view, on a reduced scale, showing the guard as it appears when inverted.

Referring to the drawings for describing in detail the structure which is illustrated therein, the reference character L indicates a top wall portion of a bank, said wall havlrzgl a money slot formed therethrough, as a The reference character G indicates the body member of the guard, while the reference character H indicates the guard fingers.

The body member G is shaped to provide a central portion 2 which is adapted to rest flat against the under surface of the wall. L of the bank, and this portion is formed with a slot 3 to register with the slot 1. At opposite sides of the portion 2 the body member is formed with depressed, or concaved portions 4 which extend uniformly throughout the entire length of the body member. Beyond the portions 4: the body member is provided with depending flanges 5 also extending throughout the length of the body member.

Two rows of apertures, as 6 and 7, are formed in the body member, one row bein formed through the material of the body member within each of the concaved portions 4;. The apertures forming one row are arranged alternately with relation to the apertures forming the other row, as clearly seen in Fig. 3.

The fingers H comprise U-shape members preferably made of wire cut to the proper length. and bent so that the two legs of each U-shane member form two of the fingers, and these extend throughtwo of the apertures 6, or 7. The connecting portion, as 8, of each of the Ushape members is preferably quite straight so as to lie snugly against theupper surface of the portion of the body member intermediate the two holes through which the legs protrude. The holes are of somewhat greater diameter than the diameter of the wire used so that the legs of the U-shape members hang loosely through the holes and the connecting portions 8 con stitute. in effect. pivotal. mountings for the the guard two Thus the legs, or fingers, are adapted for swinging only in a plane toward and away from the vertical planeof the money slot,

the portions 8 standing between the upper surface of the concaved portions 1 of the body member and the adjacent under surface of the wall L of the bank serving to prevent any appreciable swinging of the fingers longitudinally of the body member.

The flanges 5 are bent inwardly so that their lower longitudinal edges, as 9, stand to engage the fingers of the respective rows so as to hold the fingers inclined, thoseof onerow toward those of the other row, the degree of inclination being such that the lower ends of the two rows of fingers stand spaced apart, as at 10, a distance corresponding approximately with the width of the money slot 13.

As a convenient means of attaching this guard device to the wall L, the material of the wall L is preferably formed with lugs 11, provided from a portion of the material displaced in the formation of the slot 1, said lugs be'ing bent into the slot 3 of the guard and turned over upon a relatively undersurface portion of the guard, as clearly indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. No rivets are employed, and the operation of attaching the guard to the bank is rendered very simple and effective.

The illustration Fig. at, shows the position assumed by the fingers of the guard when the bank is turned upside down as in an effort to remove any of the (301118 from the bankthroughthe slot 1-3, and 1t will be seen from this figure that the guard fin" gers effectively close access to the money slot from within the bank. The fingers forming one row have fallen over against the edge 9 of the flange 5 at the opposite side of the guard member, while the fingers of the-other row have fa-llen'over in a like position against the other flange 5, thefinogers of the two rows crossing each other at.

* fingers nearer to the plane of the money slot than the pivot portions 8 of'the fingers, so that upon. upsetting of the bank, the fingers of the two rows naturally fall by gravity against the flanges of the opposite row respectively.

As many changes could be made in this construction Without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description, or" shown r in the accompanying drawings, shall be interpreted as illustrative only and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is: a

1. A guard of the class described, comprising a body member and a plurality of relatively movable guard fingers, the guard fingers being arranged in two rows spaced apart, a pair of flanges formed upon the body member one adjacent each of said rows having portions to retain the guard fingers of the respective rows in normal positions, and the flange adjacent one row being disposed also to serve for limiting movement of the fingers of the opposite row into an abnormal position.

2. A guard of the class described, comprising a body member and a plurality of guard fingers connected with said body member, and said guard fingers comprising U-shape members arranged each to provide two guard fingers. I

3. A guard of the class described, comprising a body member and a plurality of pivotally mounted guard fingers connected with said body member, and said guard fingers comprising U-shape members the legs of which are spacedapart to provide two fingers connected together by aconnecting portion disposed to serve as a pivotal mounting for said fingers.

4. A guard of the class described, comprising a body member and a plurality of guard fingers connected with said body member, and said guard fingers comprising- U-shape, members, the legs of which are,

spaced apart to providetwo fingers connected together by a connecting portion, the two fingers being extended through openings formed in the body member, and said connecting portion being adapted to engage the material of the body memberintermediate said openings to thereby support said'fingers upon the body'member.

5. A guard "of the class described, comprising a body member and a plurality of pivotally mounted guard fingers connected with said body member, said guard'fingers comprising U -shape members, the legs of which are spaced apart to provide-two 'fin-' gers connected together bya connecting portion, the two fingers being extended through openings formed in the body member, and said connecting portion extending substantially straight'between the fingers and disposed to rest flat'against the surface portion of the body member intermediate said openings so asv to constitutea pivotal sup port for said fingers upon said body member.

6; A guard of the class described comprising a body member, guard fingers con nected with said body member, and said guard fingers comprising members each providing a plurality of guard fingers.

7. A guard of the class described comprising a body member and a plurality of guard fingers, the guard fingers having portions integral therewith constituting pivots therefor, the body member being formed of sheet metal and having integral portions thereof shaped to provide bearings for receiving said pivot portions, and said pivot portions and said bearings being cooperative to insure swinging of the guard fingers in prescribed planes.

8. A guard of the class described comprising a body member, a plurality of guard fingers, means whereby the guard fingers are pivot-ally connected with the body memher, and the parts constituting said pivotal connection serving to retain the guard fingers spaced apart and to insure swinging of the guard fingers in prescribed planes.

9. A guard of the class described comprising a body member and a plurality of guard fingers connected with the body member depending therefrom, said guard fingers being loosely connected by their upper ends to the body member so that their lower ends are free to move with respect to the body member, and a flange formed upon the body member also depending therefrom and having a lower edge portion standing to engage the guard fin ers intermediate the length of the guard fingers to limit the movement of the guard fingers in one direction.

10. A guard of the class described comprising a body member and a plurality of guard fingers connected with the body member depending therefrom, said body member being adapted to be attached against the inner surface of the wall of a bank and having concaved portions formed therein disposed to provide a pair of elongated recesses between the guard member and the inner surface of the wall of the bank, said guard fingers being arranged in two rows one for each of said recesses and having elongated portions disposed longitudinally in said recesses, the guard fingers depending from said elongated portions through openings formed in the body member, said elongated portions constituting pivot means interposed between the body member and the inner surface of the wall of the bank to permit swinging of the guard fingers and to insure swinging of the guard fingers only in planes transverse to the length of said recesses.

11. A guard of the class described com prising a body member and a plurality of guard fingers connected with the body member depending therefrom said body member being adapted to be attached against the inner surface of the wall of a bank and having concaved portions formed therein disposed to provide a pair of elongated recesses between the guard member and the inner surface of the wall of the bank, said guard fingers being arranged in two rows one for each of said recesses and having elongated portions disposed longitudinally in said recesses, the guard fingers depending from said elongated portions through openings formed in the body member, said elongated portions constituting pivot means interposed between the body member and the inner surface of the wall of the bank to permit swinging of the guard fingers and to insure swinging of the guard fingers only in planes transverse to the length of said recesses, together with flanges depending from the body member one for each row of guard fingers, said flanges having portions disposed for limiting swinging movement of the guard fingers.

12. A guard of the class described comprising a body member and a plurality of guard fingers, said guard fingers being movably connected with the body member to move from a normal to an abnormal position, together with flanges formed upon the body member disposed to be engaged by said fingers for limiting movement of the fingers in both normal and abnormal positions.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN NUTRY.

Witnesses L. Gnssronn HANDY, MARY SoHULz. 

